The Weekly Read is "Enter the Mystery: Black Experimental Film and Visual Culture as Metaphysical and Spiritual Practice" by Michele Prettyman. The article is published in the open access journal liquid blackness. Read it for free: buff.ly/b13yOkS
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Climbing" by longtime climber Hil Malatino, which parallels movement on rock to navigating grief, addiction, gender transition, and more. #Sports#GenderStudiesbuff.ly/VFGKK1P.
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More of Dr. Osten's research on this topic is forthcoming in HAHR, which you can read early via @DukePress's Advance Publication initiative here: doi.org/10.1215/00182168-124…
An interview with HAHR author Sarah Osten on Mexico City's gay and lesbian Left and solidarity with Central American revolutions from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. youtu.be/8SreHKQVtfA?si=SyQE…
Next week on June 17, Marc Francis, author of "Curating Deviance," will appear at Unnameable Books. buff.ly/v79vaMl.
ALT Cover of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon by Marc Francis. The cover is solid orange red with a rectangular cut out centered right that displays part of a cinema section of a newspaper. The media shows photographs of films and blurbs as well as showtimes. The title is written in a white sans serif font across the cover. The subtitle appears below aligned left in black. The author’s name is in the bottom right corner in white.
In "We See with the Skin," Roshanak Kheshti examines Zora Neale Hurston’s articulation of a radical theory of racialized perception and Black consciousness. Check out the book's introduction now for free. buff.ly/658daWM
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Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition around the world, but with a particular emphasis on the Americas.
Issue 73:2 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/zdm98QA
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Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years.
Issue 108 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/j4srvOo
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On June 16, the University of Amsterdam will host an in-person symposium on Monique Roelofs’s new book "Strange Tastes." buff.ly/hNjnTrU.
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Today is Women Veterans Day. To celebrate, learn more about veteran and civil rights activist Sarah Keys Evans, the subject of @AmyNathanBooks's new book "Riding into History."
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Modern Language Quarterly accepts articles that pay attention to the broader scope of literary history, regardless of genre or period.
Issue 87:2 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/q6KATJl
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Genre is a triannual publication devoted to the study of the codes, conventions, and histories of generic forms in the context of their cultural manifestations and effects.
Issue 59:1 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/nY8HsVf
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Coming up on June 16, @sarahrsharma, author of "Insufferable Tools," will appear in person at SPACE in Portland, Maine. buff.ly/9pD9UZ7.
ALT Cover of Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech by Sarah Sharma. The cover features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing. The background fades from bright green to yellow. All text is black, all-caps, and sans-serif. The main title spans the top half of the cover, and the subtitle is below it. The author's name is at the bottom on either side of the suit.
The #WorldCup starts today. Feeling conflicted? Join Jules Boykoff, a former pro player turned professor, in his memoir "Kicking," a must-read for all those who love the beautiful game. Save 30% with coupon E26KICK.
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American Speech has been one of the foremost publications in its field since its founding in 1925. Issue 101:2 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/NwaI49g
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Congratulations to Doyle D. Calhoun, whose book "The Suicide Archive" has been named the winner of the 2025 African Literature Association @AfricanLitAssoc Book of the Year Award. buff.ly/JTQltkz
ALT Cover of The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire by Doyle D. Calhoun. Cover features an image of a woman staring forward, with only the back of her head facing the audience. She looks towards a mask which hangs on the wall in front of her. The mask casts a shadow on the wall. The title lettering is in blue, contrasted against the white of the wall on the cover.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Resurgency" by Kali Rubaii, which uses ethnographic research to examine how Iraqi farmers outlast the long shadow of US military intervention as they return to repair their war-damaged homeland. #Anthropology#EnvironmentalStudiesbuff.ly/WlJ2W2S
ALT Cover of Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq by Kali Rubaii. The cover is a grainy photograph of red crumpled paper planes stuck into the ground nose down. The land is beige and the sky is grey. The title is written in bold sans serif font at the top of the cover. RESURGENCY is written in white and the subtitle is in a light grey. The author’s name is in the bottom right corner in red.
"Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg, explores how entities not traditionally recognized as “alive” play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Gjsa8v2
ALT Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
"Imaginative and Innovative Uses of Law," a special issue of Public Culture edited by Emily Apter, is now available. View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/Jj9GFEU
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On Saturday June 13, Basecamp Theories will sponsor an in-person symposium on "The Gloria Wekker Reader" hosted by editors Nancy Jouwe, Mikki Stelder and Chandra Frank, as part of Black Presence in Utrecht. buff.ly/JeBov7k.
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Congratulations to Rob Drew @slobster48602, whose book "Unspooled" has won the @icahdq Popular Media and Culture Division’s Outstanding Book Award. buff.ly/FwmW3LQ
ALT Cover of Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareables by Rob Drew. Cover features a photograph of a stack of cassette tapes in their cases against a black background. Cassette titles, featured on the side of the cases, include Throwing Muses, The Mountain Goats "Hot Garden Stomp," Cleaners from Venus In the Golden Autumn, NME/Rough Trade, Los Angeles/Wild Gift, SubPop, and Husker Du Zen Arcade New Day Rising.